Debt Bondage

By Anuradha Nagaraj Kancheepuram: Vasanta’s small blue kiosk packed with neat rows of biscuits, dried fish, imitation jewellery and Crazy Crunch crisps on the edge of a village in Tamil Nadu may appear modest. But it means everything to Vasanta, who spent most of her adult life trapped in a rice mill, working 14 hours a day and even giving birth ...

Bengaluru: They are not easy to spot. Working in vegetable patches and on millet fields in Karnataka, farm labourers caught in debt bondage suffer mainly in silence. But Gopal V has lived with this silence for long enough. Now 44, the son of bonded labourers is on a mission to identify workers trapped in debt bondage – and to make sure they get j...

When he travelled half-way across the country to help his mother pay off a debt, 15-year-old Marimuthu had no idea that the he would end up having to escape an abusive employer and seek hospital treatment for serious burns on his legs.

Thousands of Nepali farmers have fallen into debt bondage and lost their land after paying exorbitant fees to agents for jobs abroad, and the government is trying to secure the rights of two million Nepali migrants, a government official said on Tuesday.

Some 30 million people are enslaved worldwide, trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labour, victims of debt bondage or even born into servitude, a global index on modern slavery showed on Thursday.

By Anuradha Nagaraj Kancheepuram: Vasanta’s small blue kiosk packed with neat rows of biscuits, dried fish, imitation jewellery and Crazy Crunch crisps on the edge of a village in Tamil Nadu may appear modest. But it means everything to Vasanta, who spent most of her adult life trapped in a rice mill, working 14 hours a day and even giving birth ...

Bengaluru: They are not easy to spot. Working in vegetable patches and on millet fields in Karnataka, farm labourers caught in debt bondage suffer mainly in silence. But Gopal V has lived with this silence for long enough. Now 44, the son of bonded labourers is on a mission to identify workers trapped in debt bondage – and to make sure they get j...

When he travelled half-way across the country to help his mother pay off a debt, 15-year-old Marimuthu had no idea that the he would end up having to escape an abusive employer and seek hospital treatment for serious burns on his legs.

Thousands of Nepali farmers have fallen into debt bondage and lost their land after paying exorbitant fees to agents for jobs abroad, and the government is trying to secure the rights of two million Nepali migrants, a government official said on Tuesday.

Some 30 million people are enslaved worldwide, trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labour, victims of debt bondage or even born into servitude, a global index on modern slavery showed on Thursday.